diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index ed56311..3112e05 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ of every change, see the Git log.
 
 Latest
 ------
-* tbd
+* Minor: Added access to the user_error on the exception object
 
 1.5.0
 -----
diff --git a/src/pytest_datarecorder/datarecorder.py b/src/pytest_datarecorder/datarecorder.py
index c60dff3..33eadac 100644
--- a/src/pytest_datarecorder/datarecorder.py
+++ b/src/pytest_datarecorder/datarecorder.py
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ def __init__(
         if user_error:
             result += f"{user_error}\n"
 
+            # Make sure we can ass only the user error if we want
+            self.user_error = user_error
+
         super(DataRecorderError, self).__init__(result)
 
 
diff --git a/test/test_datarecorder.py b/test/test_datarecorder.py
index e56112f..c46590d 100644
--- a/test/test_datarecorder.py
+++ b/test/test_datarecorder.py
@@ -146,8 +146,23 @@ def on_mismatch(mismatch_data, recording_data, mismatch_dir, mismatch_context):
             mismatch_context="scatter",
         )
 
+        assert e.user_error is True
+
     assert "Data mismatch at index [0, 3]" in str(e.value)
     assert mismatch_index == [0, 3]
 
     # Check that the mismatch directory contains the files
     assert mismatch_dir.contains_file("scatter.json")
+
+    def on_mismatch(mismatch_data, recording_data, mismatch_dir, mismatch_context):
+        return "Data mismatch"
+
+    with pytest.raises(pytest_datarecorder.datarecorder.DataRecorderError) as e:
+        datarecorder.record_data(
+            data=[5, 2, 3, 1, 5],
+            recording_file=recording_file,
+            mismatch_callback=on_mismatch,
+            mismatch_dir=mismatch_dir.path(),
+        )
+
+        assert e.user_error == "Data mismatch"